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exactly how an underground test was. the re one zero almost you couldn't hear anything about there was no noise at all of the the ground lifted up . we live under the threat of increasingly sophisticated weapons. in two thousand one hundred eighty eight states parties to the nonproliferation treaty signed on to a statement providing for an unequivocal undertaking to the total elimination of nuclear weapons it has been set back by principally the united states but not alone russia france china the u.k. all have their share of responsibility. disarmament agreements are not being honored. what is happening now it is that it all is intact countries are able to write a draft over international law because there is insufficient body of protest from within that country ordering them to these basic principles. french polynesia was

thrust into the midst of the nuclear tests. when we accompanied them to ground zero with guns pointed. ready to fire who are we going to fire at i wonder he should be crabs rob. you know putin to be there was a russian or american invasion vital no end of the cord war and the going away of the soviet union many people thought that nuclear weapons disappeared so a lot of the people who were activists under saddam and issues moved their activism to the environment or fighting globalization or other issues and no one today is fighting in the streets for disarmament and nonproliferation. it injure is growing with the anti-nuclear movement wake up. and.

america was not the only western power to consider the pacific islands far enough from home to use for practice a nuclear war in one thousand nine hundred french polynesia out of more meaning the great secret became france's marshall islands for thirty years this earthly paradise showed under nearly two hundred nuclear explosions but more also became ground zero of the anti-nuclear movement. cannot overcome the fact that our country collaborated in the development of the atomic bomb. and continue to regenerate the goals and that french polynesia is proud to be part of what france will become in week that is to say imagine a clear palmer. but to me that is disgusting in gruesome and the event

mourning was imposed on us don't go off it you might in fact she makes us guilty too yeah for we are victims in which we also are responsible for what's happening to us and for what might happen if france were to use its nuclear weapons. and i find that unforgivable and. behind this image of paradise lies the secret that surrounds protesting and rips apart the people of french polynesia here the economy is dependent on france and the subject of nuclear testing remains taboo but this doesn't stop more air. bristow mood right now leisure was that i'm thinking of my children's future. also my. tiny territory a tiny country will do for but we have

a high percentage of people suffering from thyroid long and bladder cancer. and it's frightening to know all that. with the help of her husband that he should teacher and mother of two uses the internet to broadcast an image of her country one that is rather different from those in the travel agency brochures. the ballot in cuba he decided to speak out of open nuclear issue because it's part of our contemporary history and it is disrupted our society since the sixty's. now we suffer from the ills of a modern society yes we tell our son about our country's history but then when he asks us. there is one fact we were just talking about nuclear testing with a lottery yes he was wondering why they did the tests here and not in france.

we explained that we are in the middle of a big ocean. and there are only two hundred thousand inhabitants. you know criticism fewer people are likely to be affected. yes. my father is a vice president of the independence party. and he has been involved in many anti-nuclear demonstrations. just as one of my going to say to them when they ask what did you do to get my country into this situation and that's what i worry about . we were the atom bomb generation. proof only for paul tuttle you're both stance on have a good time don't worry about anything else will look after your country.

france is keeping its nuclear arsenal because it needs the nuclear deterrent to discourage various threats to its vital interests will be quietly that is the doctrine that was established in the sixty's and it is still valid today. that the leaders of the church and i've been one since one thousand nine hundred sixty three have never agreed with nuclear testing. but it's we cannot agree to weapons of mass destruction this summer it's not possible they are forgotten it's not just since the french tests we were against the american nuclear tests in the marshall islands of washup. long before france in one nine hundred forty six the united states and then great britain chose the pacific to conduct their testing but their tonic mushroom clouds were poisonous radioactive debris fell on to the surface of the earth and threatened the help of people all over the planet in one thousand fifty eight

campaign for nuclear disarmament organized the first worldwide grassroots opposition in one thousand nine hundred eighty three under the pressure of the peace movements the two western powers and the u.s.s.r. signed an agreement banning atmosphere testing france was i'm concerned and continue to detonate suspended from big buildings. by nine hundred seventy four forty six the atmosphere of french polynesia the word environment was still alien to the french however this was not the case for greenpeace of the campaign against the french was conceived during the first campaign against the united states because the united states was testing nuclear weapons but was testing them underground and france was still testing weapons in the atmosphere. in one nine hundred seventy one this small thank you for basically decides to stop all nuclear testing in the pacific soon greenpeace departs from or they find an ally in new

zealand where follow from the french testing has been detected on its soil. museum in five to complete the international court of justice and wins. france is forced to renounce atmosphere testing but there is still another option the era of french underground testing begins it will last more than twenty years before. you don't actually need to do any tests once you've configured it recently well from a physicist point of view there is no chance that it explodes the problem is therefore to figure out in exactly what conditions it's going to explode and with how much part which is a ridiculous justification since the purpose of a bomb is to kill people women and children so to achieve that goal you don't need to be a perfectionist. i call him uncle because i've known him since i was little but i know when you he worked on. if i told my superiors i want to be protected why are they protected by him not with my khaki police uniform shorts i

can't be all that. he and the military personnel were covered from head to toe. what about us polynesians in what about us is not the same bomb on we were tougher when we. were tougher so we can take a dose of radiation i don't know maybe it's from eating tarot or nose. diplo the only one i deplore is when some polynesians played a card about the french injecting billions here. in the force they say take advantage of it and don't go around talking nonsense. and you've got to end your association or a typo it's really a very young association two thousand and one wasn't his uncle. last year had the presidential dissociation oral and all ham on the radio he was appealing to young

people is a region them to take a greater interest in the nuclear problem then. so that's how we joined the socio. nucular test here devastated polynesian society not just in terms of health the environment and other things. like the structures of the society were destroyed. what does it mean to stop the tests no jobs no money no economy will all starve that was the government's message. and if you were against the bombing your father or uncle worked at the site and they didn't want to protest against the bomb this thing that's a real rift in the family even between father and son but if i became aware of when i was about twenty four. my father went sort of crazy.

he said take your wife and daughter and get out i don't want to see you anymore. and i was a teenagers and. and i said to myself who are the real crazy ones that. are the ones who are against nuclear testing all the ones who supported him. it was because my classmates for example were saying oh yeah nuclear testing so it's a bomb that explodes that's it. only when you hear about an activist getting arrested by the police and thrown in jail and not be a need to get to meet them i think that in her mind she wondered why is it always my father. even if you don't it's true that when she was in jail it shocked me because i felt that it was too much of

a sacrifice to save my life and i wonder if it was really worth it for him to make the sacrifice when others would not yes i was a little angry out that. not only do didn't she went down various trips to new zealand with my parents i had the opportunity to meet some members of greenpeace to go and no you couldn't i think that will bring a fact across the ocean to try and stop nuclear tests and but it would have been so much better able if our people had risen up together in protest on messages to move. greenpeace irritates the french military july tenth one thousand nine hundred five while the activists prepared to sail again to morrow of france orders the sinking of their ship the rainbow warrior anchored in

new zealand and harder. the bombing provokes an uproar in the international community and tremendous publicity for greenpeace. ten years later in one thousand and five the french president jacques chirac orders a new series of nuclear tests this time to hear the bells. i know that actually our first demonstration was in one thousand nine hundred four. and in one thousand nine hundred five in the airport. and we saw the riot police shooting at protesters cities. see if. it was like watching a big movie screen. because if. it was very upsetting it was a feeling of hate. hate. the polynesian people rose up together and said you know mr chirac please stop.

and you just brush it away and said something my decision is final. it one person one person decided the entire future of my children. my grandchildren and my great grandchildren. sits in c. and. genuine one thousand nine hundred six france proceeds with this last nuclear test. what turns out to be the starting point for a long term research. we've done is the only last tests justified an enormous investment to build a new quit meant numerous new bombs the laser megajoules and you aircraft damage so everything is being updated between now and twenty twenty. only interesting results from countries like the united states.

some of the other western nations in developing new nuclear weapons that it excites the interest in countries like korea and iran who want to draw in the nuclear club . two thousand and six is a landmark here the united states the united kingdom france russia and china all we invest in their nuclear arsenals the message is clear it is necessary to their security on the other hand the same countries keep telling non-nuclear nations that acquire nuclear weapons is illegitimate leaders would be fooling themselves if they think that this type of a system can continue we are still living in a system that emanates from the end of the second world war five countries in the security council have special powers and it's even more problematic that these five countries are also the five card for use with nuclear weapons so in a sense it gives the impression that having nuclear weapons gives them the special

status i will going to one law one standard we're going to have to class world increasingly the countries predicament golding world are saying that they're not going to live in a two class world. system force where french we are in our passports also french not second class citizens second rate and that is do you remember which all sound said the other day. if we had been telling me sheehan would never have had nuclear tests this week if that's what it's called back than it was before i think that when we have our independence. the whole truth about the tests and their consequences will come out because. well it is our people are taken for ignorant and that has to stop polluting we are not ignorant. today we want

a truth and we're going to get it for always maintained that their bombs were clear that they were exploding clean atomic bombs but in two thousand and six they conceded to some follow up throughout french polynesia. measurable is that i see they can't record tast and the stands are test which were carried out the year i was warren. if you don't know that i've had a thyroid problem for two years now. and i wonder if it's connected to the nuclear tests. so this shows that one hundred and ninety six radioactive follow it's were detected in french polynesia. but we don't know the deuce. they're not telling us but they know. in france it takes time for things to be made public particularly with respect to nuclear testing it's

top secret it's a defense secret so there's no information at all. you know the problem exists in french polynesia either as the collective anxiety brought aboard by cycles sociological poisoning or in terms of the code of silence that has prevailed over the radioactive fallout. but here you know if there is a psychosis it's because the government created it we want to know the radiation dose of those follow its own they tell us there were one hundred ninety six of them with no health consequences the truth has to be told that after years and years of this atmosphere of secrecy let's call it by its rightful name. the popular people who live there are worried and rightly so because i think they deserve the truth immediately put campaigning for transparency doesn't necessarily make you a doomsayer it look at the. war

in general we have a higher rate of fire wood cancer as you compared to some regions it's much higher seems that if we have a higher incidence of leukemia than elsewhere it's probably due to the palm missing but that needs to be proved we have to hurry and tick. samples from people who are still alive viva the easiest way to find the people who worked on moore is to tour the halls outside the un college department in the hospital after people. feel for you a lot this year he worked at peace in. a repair facility for navy ships returning from the test states. it dead now and i have lung cancer he has cancer in his left lung. yup assured liquid he worked on more wall for a very short time only six months and the second time they brought him home because

he was having trouble breathing. he had three brothers who were two more and all three died of this yes. yes yes they died. so this is his wife she has it's my tirade. and it's starting to get bigger look yeah and later it will be here. but i'm not saying it's because of moral or no i can't we don't have scientific proof but we have lots and lots of questions about it that's all i don't want to say that we should be criticizing. it. also in addition to the serious nature of their illness if you say anything they insult you they tell you all you want is to benefit from french money. i prefer my husband to mine and his illness has gotten worse and i'm going to lose him so it hurts i

don't care about money. yes that's the way. he did the four years they have been checking me more evil for they couldn't figure out that i had a kidney tumor. in the other. i am waiting for someone to say clearly your illness was caused by eating too much pork too much of this or that were lost or it's because of the nuclear testing. what have we done it has to stop there i'm sorry give you a lot of nonsense and then just say bye guys don't worry you can eat fish you can grow food and there's no problem. well yes there is a small problem but it's not serious it's clean. we want the ball not all the plutonium is used

a lot of it is just left behind so that's what we're talking the most about so long as the remains are going to grow. is not a problem when it gets into the water and when it gets in. then it could be a problem. believe what is the legacy of one hundred fifty to undergo nuclear tests six hundred seven hundred kilos of plutonium underneath more rula q does that mean. new kind of the norm. one tenth of a millionth of a gram of plutonium can cause cancer. so it's radioactive half life is twenty four thousand four hundred years. that means it will take more than two hundred forty thousand years before it can be considered harmless beautiful since. this assumption that it will not go anywhere which is held by testing authorities think

in more than one country turns out to be not quite right. recent research done by the u.s. government in about a test indicates that in one. has migrated from from the past already within forty years. one of the additional problem that had been discovered in the last fifty years turned out to be a very complicated substance chemical behavior is very difficult to characterize and it made my great faster in the water. than before and so now we have to worry about that and you know we have seven hundred kilos down there . so nobody knows if more roe is stabilize. the heart of mora is beginning to cave in that's the legacy we're left with and

they want to stick close the book on moral no no never. said some q. to the seven hundred kilos of various now soil. and i ask myself is because when you know what it's worth having children will seep through when they are faced with a tragedy. and it could indeed happen and it. is a few tickets one and all it would take would be a tsunami to light up. the scene when i heard him talking about the legacy on judical beach. i saw my daughter. and came out again and kissing me. and i thought if i don't do anything unusual any one day she would blame me if you

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